A Tough-Minded and Humane Man

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Having read Ben Zycher’s wonderful tribute to Bill Niskanen, I
realize that I did not know Bill nearly as well as Ben did. I saw
Bill about once a year on visits to Washington, when I dropped
in on him at the Cato Institute. Thus, my tribute is less to his
personality and more to his intellect and accomplishments. As
anyone who has read much of his work knows, Bill’s writing
reveals not only a first-rate intellect, but also an attractive personality
and character. Part of that personality was a keen and
somewhat self-deprecating sense of humor.